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DonViejo

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Fri Dec 7, 2018, 03:16 PM Dec 2018

Trump Swipes at 'Fake News' Midterm Coverage in Speech to Law Enforcement: They Talk About House...

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Trump Swipes at ‘Fake News’ Midterm Coverage in Speech to Law Enforcement: They Talk About House, Not Senate!

by Josh Feldman | Dec 7th, 2018, 1:46 pm 174

During his speech at the Project Safe Neighborhoods National Conference today, President Donald Trump briefly went on a tangent complaining about the “fake news” again.

Trump first made some comments praising Senator-elect Josh Hawley, who defeated incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill, before saying this:

“I keep listening to the fake news that ‘They won the House, House, House House!’ Nobody ever talks about the Senate. We won the Senate easily. In fact, we picked up two.”

“You never hear that,” he emphasized again. “You only hear the House, House, House.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-swipes-at-fake-news-midterm-coverage-in-speech-to-law-enforcement-they-talk-about-house-not-senate/



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Trump Swipes at 'Fake News' Midterm Coverage in Speech to Law Enforcement: They Talk About House... (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2018 OP
That's because only 1/3 of Senate was up and ALL of the House was Maeve Dec 2018 #1
"But it was the strawberries..." LakeSuperiorView Dec 2018 #2

Maeve

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1. That's because only 1/3 of Senate was up and ALL of the House was
Fri Dec 7, 2018, 03:30 PM
Dec 2018

35 Senate seats vs 435 House.

You won 2, we won 40 (maybe 41). (Ok, gains only counted)

Math is hard.

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